Today I’m sharing my chopped kale and blueberry salad recipe. It is one of my favorite ways to add vegetables to my meal plan. Are you trying to eat more vegetables? The most well-researched diet patterns that yield the highest health benefits include the Mediterranean diet, the DASH diet (Dietary…
Erin Davis, MS, RDN, CDCES
How to Prevent Bad Body Image Days
We’ve all had them. Days where we feel bloated or disgusted by what we see in the mirror. Those bad body image days can wreck your mood, impact your food intake, and ruin your sex life. Not to mention that our children are watching our every move. If they hear…
Feeding a Picky Eater
Is your child a picky eater? Are you stressed out at mealtime? As moms, we often worry if our children are eating the right things. Avoidance of certain foods or food groups can put your child at risk for vitamin and mineral deficiencies. We want our kids to develop healthy…
Protect Your Children from Diet Culture!
As a dietitian, I’ve heard a lot of diet talk through the years. Diet culture is all around us. Hopes of weight loss, new goals, new diets. While I’d like everyone to just stop dieting already, I realize that likely won’t happen! But if you’re not ready to give up…
Stop Stress-Eating
Are you wondering how you can stop stress-eating? A big “problem-area” of people who are trying to improve their overall diet is stress-eating. When we feel stressed, we may turn to food to ease our minds. We see food as a calm in the storm. Food makes us feel good….
Meal Planning for Intuitive Eating
Do you often find yourself scrambling to make a decent dinner? We just wrapped up our spring sports season, and meals were a struggle. One area of my life that I’m always trying to improve is my meal planning. Today I am going to share how I do meal planning…
Need a Nutrition Writer? 5 Reasons to Hire an RD
A nutrition writer can add value to your company’s website. Not only can targeted SEO content drive traffic to your site, but you can also build trust with your potential customers. So why hire a registered dietitian (RD) to do your nutrition writing? Here are five reasons why you should…
Accept Your Body
5 Things You Should Stop and 5 Things You Should Do Instead Accepting your body can be a hard principle to embrace. With spring break approaching, I’m preparing hear of weight loss and body goals. It is when one of my most hated phrases surfaces: “Summer bodies are made in…
Using Prayer to Overcome Dieting
Are you struggling to give up dieting? Do you battle against body image issues and negative self-talk? Today, I’ll talk about using prayer to overcome dieting and those body image issues. I’m sharing because I so often kept my faith separate from my dieting and desire to change my body….
The Dietitian Stops Dieting
Dieting: A Fruitless Pursuit Have you ever been on a diet? It is our human nature to want physical beauty. We desire to have the perfect body, great skin, the newest wardrobe, etc. In an effort to improve our appearance, we spend much of our time, as well as money….